Ghislaine Maxwell Prosecution Reveals Nearly 3 Million Pages of Evidence
(www.newsweek.com)
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That doesn’t make sense.
Let’s say I bring one charge against you, but it involves hundreds of thousands of documents. The key to proving your innocence may be on only one of those pages, but you run out of time in your search.
Still think that’s a fair idea?
That's not how the law works. I am innocent until proven guilty by the prosecution. The burden of proof is on the prosecution to make a case.
Innocent people do not need loopholes and legal technicalities to "prove innocence."
The defense only need defend against the evidence that the prosecution presents to the jury, or judge, in the courtroom. They don't need to waste time before the trail begins to review what the prosecution has, because they have the defendant. If the defendant has not been forthright with her lawyers in detailing her crimes- or explaining her innocence, then that's her problem.
You have absolutely zero clue how legal procedure works.
It’s not Law and Order: SVU.
As someone who has personally gone through the discovery process and the trial process, you absolutely need both sides to have had access to everything before you get in that court room. You can’t put a time limit on examining the facts. I’ve seen an insurance adjuster intimidate a jury so that they could try to get a mistrial declared after they learned the plaintiff’s strategy.
Imagine if they told Derek Chauvin’s legal team, “Oh, you didn’t get to examine the witness testimony because the prosecution didn’t provide it earlier? Too bad, your trial’s tomorrow. Good luck.”
Get out of here with your “retribution” idea of what justice looks like. Due process and equal protection under the law cannot be something we pick and choose to apply if this republic is to survive.